Primary Care Network Clinical Pharmacist

Integrated Care System; Northolt; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Barnabas Medical Centre is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to enhance patient services. The role involves managing medication processes, conducting reviews for chronic disease patients, and ensuring best practices in a supportive multi-practice network. Ideal candidates should possess a CPPE qualification and have a strong commitment to patient-centered care.

Benefits

Access to training opportunities

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy.
• Expert level understanding of therapeutics.
• Experience in managing long-term health conditions.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the repeat prescribing process and managing medication reviews.
• Conducting structured medication reviews for patients with multiple health conditions.
• Ensuring compliance with Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards.

Skills

Excellent communication

Clinical pharmacy expertise

Problem solving

Patient-centered care

Leadership

Education

CPPE Qualification or working towards it

Job description

Primary Care Network Clinical Pharmacist

Barnabas Medical Centre, Northolt, is seeking an accomplished and enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist to join Their friendly, forward-thinking, and well-established practice and PCN. This position replaces their current pharmacist, who is planning to retire later this year.

The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will play a key role in supporting the delivery of services for patients with new or long-term health needs.

Completion of the CPPE pathway is required for this role.

The post is full-time, working 37.5 hours across five days per week.

If you are enthusiastic about making a positive impact on patient care and thrive in a dynamic healthcare environment, we encourage you to apply.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will have responsibilities that include overseeing the repeat prescribing process within the practice, will have a cohort of patients who may have medication queries or require medication reviews, and will take the lead in designing and delivering a service specifically tailored to their needs. Additionally, the candidate will be responsible for conducting review clinics for patients with chronic diseases such as Asthma, COPD, Pre-Diabetes, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Heart Failure. These clinics may be conducted face-to-face, through telephone consultations, or via video calls.

The successful candidate will ensure safe prescribing practices, monitoring higher risk drugs, managing long-term conditions, and identifying potential missed diagnoses in accordance with CQC standards. It is an ongoing process that requires continuous vigilance and management.

About us

Barnabas Medical Centre is part of Northolt, Greenford and Perivale PCN, one of the well-established networks, comprising of 11 general practices that work collaboratively to improve patient outcomes and deliver excellent healthcare services. The network has fostered strong relationships among its staff members, creating a supportive and collaborative working environment.

Barnabas Medical Centre and NGP PCN, are committed to nurturing the professional growth and well-being of their employees. They provide a supportive infrastructure, access to training opportunities, and a culture that promotes teamwork and mutual support.

Job responsibilities

Key Dutiesand Responsibilities

1. Riskstratification

Design, develop and implement computer searches to identify cohorts ofpatients with chronic disease who need review and medicines optimisation.

Manage own case load. Do the necessarychecks for QOF and Ealing Standard entering the data correctly on the computersystem. Implement improvements to the patients medication and prescribingindependently where necessary.

3. Managepatients holistically

Where patients have more than one condition; reviewing co-morbiditiesin the same appointment and updating QOF and Ealing Standard as appropriate.Referring to other members of the Primary Health Care team and Secondary Careas necessary.

4. Medicationreviews

Undertake structured medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy andimplement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and orderrelevant monitoring tests. Provide a telephone support for patients withquestions, queries and concerns about their medicines and deliver medicinesreconciliation from secondary care recommendations.

5. Pathology

Request and manage the results for the cohort of patients under yourcare in a safe and timely way.

6. Medicinessafety and quality improvement

Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiringimprovement. Conduct own audits and improvement projects and work withcolleagues. Present results and provide leadership on suggested change.Demonstrate continuous QI activity focused upon prescribing safety as specifiedin the QOF guidance. This work for example might include deliver against theprescribing indicators in the Impact Investment Fund (IIF). Contribute tonational and local research initiatives.

7. Servicedevelopment

Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines orNICE guidance, where new medicine/recommendations allow the development of anew care pathway.

8. Care Quality Commission

Provide leadership to the practice manager and GPs to ensure thepractice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved as partof the regulatory role of this position.

9. Meetings

Attend MDT, Network, Practice, ICB and Federation meetings as required.Being prepared to contribute to Network pharmacy issues as appropriate.

10. OversightNetwork Pharmacy issues

In addition to a clinical specialism this role involves oversight ofprescribing across the two network practices and requires the ability toprepare and present reports as required.

11. Relationships

To foster and maintain good relationships between, within and outsidethe Practices involved in the network.

12. Populationand Public Health

To devise and manage population and public health campaigns to runwithin the network if required.

13. Medicineinformation to practice staff and patients

Answer all medicine relatedenquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries aboutmedicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up forpatients to monitor the effect of any changes.

14. Flexibility

To understand that this is a new and evolvingrole which may change with the needs of the Network. To be willing to changeand the facilitate change in others and the system to promote quality care.

15. Training

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeuticsand medicines optimisation. Provide training to visiting medical, nursing andother healthcare students where appropriate.

16. Implementationof local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economies RAGlist for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) orsubject to shared care (amber drugs). Liaise directly with hospital colleagueswhere prescribing needs to be returned to specialists. Assist practices insetting and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practicescomputer system.

Suggest and develop computer decision support tools to help remindprescribers about the agreed formulary choice and local recommendations.Auditing practices compliance against NICEs technology assessment guidance.Provide newsletters on important prescribing messages to improve prescribersknowledge and work with the team to develop and implement other techniquesknown to influence implementation of evidence such as audit and feedback.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• CPPE Qualification or working towards it.
• Excellent communication and consultation skills both verbal (face to face and phone) and written.
• Places patients and relatives at the center of all decisions regarding their care.
• Can deliver clinics within appropriate time frames.
• Develops and uses skills to take an appropriate history uses clinical examination skills and recognises common presentations and red flags treating or referring appropriately.
• Refers to seniors and GPs when appropriate recognises personal limitations.
• Demonstrates problem solving skills.
• Conveys complex and sensitive information in an appropriate way for target audience.
• Expert level understanding of therapeutics and clinical pharmacy.
• Experienced in level 3 review and management of complex multimorbidity, polypharmacy and medicines optimisation.
• Uses rational evidence based methods in prescribing and medication review.
• Demonstrates expertise in managing long term health conditions, by reviewing, care planning, motivational lifestyle advice monitoring and optimisation.
• Makes accurate contemporaneous succinct and cogent records in patient notes.
• Manages risk and takes actions to minimise risk.
• Ability to use local clinical IT systems, can access patient data, run searches, understands read codes pathology and other functionality.
• Understands and utilises ePACT and other prescribing data for the improvement of patient care and governance of prescribing.
• Use and consider local policies such as red lists scriptswitch and shared care arrangements.
• Promotes safe and effective use of electronic prescribing.
• Engages in appropriate CPD develops and maintains critically reflective practice.
• Understands implications of medicines licensing particularly in relation to specials liquids and medical devices and appliances.
• Deals with incidents and complaints sensitively appropriately and assertively.
• Respects equality and diversity and understands whistle blowing procedures.
• Follows legal, ethical, professional policies and practices.
• Has knowledge and understanding of the governance and regulatory frameworks in primary care.
• Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the practice and their role to patient care.
• Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the cooperation of relevant stakeholders including patients, senior and peer colleagues and other professionals, other NHS or private organisations.
• Understanding of General Practice and GPs role in primary care.
• Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
• Liaises with colleagues including ICB and STP ICS Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
• Liaises with colleagues including ICB and STP ICS Pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support.
• Liaises with network GP Practices and neighbouring networks as needed for the collective benefit of patients.
• Has an experience/awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
• Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
• Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general pharmaceutical care programmes for patients across core areas including disease states long term conditions.
• Accountable for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Uses skills in a range of routine situations requiring analysis or comparison of a range of options.
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Able to follow legal ethical professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct.
• Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.
• Understands provision of services clinics and specialities within local areas and within networks.
• Provides medicines information and training.
• Works as part of team and promotes utilisation of skill mix.
• Works under pressure and can meet deadlines.
• Accountable for own practice.
• Liaises successfully with colleagues in community pharmacy, ICB, secondary care, and private practice.
• Able to refer appropriately to other health care professionals.
• Can work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Engages with pharmacy professional bodies.
• Follows organisational policies and practices.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.